I’d argue the game design and the way competitive Pokemon functions, grinding is very much NOT the spirit of the games. If anything, like many flaws with Pokemon games over the years, it’s a JRPG traditions they’ve held onto for the sake of.

It’s more like disqualifying someone for buying strawberries at the store instead of growing them from seed, even though the competition is about baking and not gardening.

If the rules are that people need to grind in order to play competitively, those are really stupid rules.

I’m with a few of the others here. It’s against the rules, but as long as you aren’t surpassing the actual possible limits of what a Pokémon should be I find it hard to call it “cheating” specifically.

Cheating would be manipulating the RNG seed so your Fissure always hits. Because hacked pokemon perform identically to caught/bred pokemon, this is only eliminating grind that has nothing to do with the competition.

Yes, they do. Every form of labor benefits from a union. Collective bargaining is a good thing. Job security is a good thing. Health and pension plans are a good thing. I very much appreciate employers who offer reasonable contracts, employee retention, health and pension, etc. But the drawbacks of capitalism demand a…

Jesus Christ dude. Senpai isn’t going to notice you.

The fact that “MOST jobs aren’t union” is, itself, something wrong.

I’m really not sure what effect you think the price of the product that he tested incorrectly and then stole has to do with literally anything.

Things got even messier when Gamers Nexus alleged that Linus Tech Tips then sold the prototype rather than giving it back to Billet Labs so it could be sent out to other reviewers. Sebastian clarified later that it had not been sold, but rather auctioned off for charity during an Extra Life fundraiser for the…

it wasnt 800. thats the price they were hoping to hit for production.  that was a prototype that was probably 10x as valuable. and it was made for the 3090ti which was provided and unused. 

LTT literally tested a prototype in a way that went against the creator’s explicit instuctions on a wrong GPU (despite Billet Labs providing the GPU on which the cooling block prototype was meant to work - which, as it turns out, was also not sent back to BLL), decided not to correct that in any way, then sold (oh,…

Across all of their channels, they total a weekly average of like 25 videos a week

Was that esoteric? I thought that was intended, it seemed so natural!

Isn’t judging people by their actions like the one thing we should judge them for? I get it if you want to stick it out with a bad actor family member because there’s a lot of social baggage in those kinds of relationships, but JK Rowling is probably nothing to you. If you can reconcile their shitty behaviors…

Let’s get real for a moment-

Correct.

It’s their attempt to bring the HP universe into the real world, where powerful people never face consequences more severe than a few Twitter memes trying to “cancel” them for their heinous actions.

It’s OK to care about multiple things.

Right, because every story is supposed to be about everything and not the specific people actually related to it.
And Kotaku, a games and Japan news website, is supposed to never talk about video game news and if they do, they have to make it about everything and everyone else.